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Rayograph. Man Ray made his "rayographs" without a camera by placing objects-such as the thumbtacks, coil of wire, and other circular forms used here-directly on a sheet of photosensitized paper and exposing it to light.
Through motion, ambiguity, and visual punning, Man Ray created objects in a variety of media that defy the viewer to discover their meaning. No medium was better suited to advance his theories than the photogram.
13 de nov. de 2023 · Man Ray (1890-1976) was best known as a photographer, mostly of fashion and portraits. Many of his photographs appeared in the French Vogue . He also made photograms, named rayographs by Tristan Tzara in reference to their creator.
Man Ray claimed to have invented the photogram—which he called a “rayograph”—not long after he emigrated from New York to Paris in 1921.
Man Ray was an artist of enormous international standing, who worked in many media including photography. He began to make rayographs when he moved to Paris in 1921. Rayograph was Man Ray's name for photogram, a type of photograph made without a camera or a lens.
This rayograph toys with the role of film in photography—instead of developing the film to create a photo in the traditional manner, Man Ray unspooled the roll across the light-sensitive paper to create a spiraling form.
Suspended between abstraction and representation, the results are sometimes quite sharp and hard-edged—as in this image—and at other times shadowy and indistinct. Man Ray called his photograms “rayographs,” a designation that referred both to rays of light and to his surname.
